“Life is not short of beauty, it merely lacks the eyes to discover it.” Beauty is present in every aspect of life, everywhere.

I love plants: orchids, plums, bamboos, chrysanthemums, roses, peonies, spider plants, in hues of red, orange, yellow, green, gray, white, and black, all vibrant and graceful. Each one feels like possessing an entire world with just a second glance.

I enjoy cooking: potatoes, peanuts, asparagus spears, tomatoes, paired with oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar, they create a vivid and appealing picture. They are pleasing to the eye and delicious to taste, how delightful!

And Drinking Tea is perhaps the most beautiful thing in life.

The Tea leaves themselves are beautiful. Tender buds, downy tips, uniform twisted strands, or glossy cake surfaces; lustrous, spread-out leaf beds…

Tea leaves move and unfurl like dancers, swaying to the rhythm of water.

The tea liquor is beautiful. Green Tea has a yellow-green, clear liquor, exuding a fresh and light style; Black Tea has a warm, soft hue, like a gentle breeze moving cotton-like clouds.

Ripe Pu'er, with its deep red, bright liquor, the oily texture enveloping the entire pot, resembles a blazing fire, or crimson lips, revealing that tea liquor can possess such a tactile quality.

The act of drinking tea is beautiful. Leisurely strolling through a garden filled with falling blossoms, setting up a tea table, boiling a pot of good water.

Good tea, good water, and good thoughts, the Teapot lifted slowly, the liquor pouring gently, the tea sipped leisurely, every movement graceful.

Drinking tea can be elegant or casual, but no matter how it's done, it remains wonderful, because when drinking tea, the tea is beautiful, and so is the person drinking it.